Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906, and launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of London in 1908. From 1909 on, the process was known as Kinemacolor. It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing and projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters. "How to Make and Operate Moving Pictures" published by Funk and Wagnalls in 1917 notes the following: source: Widescreen Museum The first motion picture exhibited in Kinemacolor was an eight-minute short filmed in Brighton titled A Visit to the Seaside, which was trade shown in September 1908. On 26 February 1909, the general public first saw Kinemacolor in a programme of 21 short films shown at the Palace Theatre in London. In 1910, Kinemacolor released the first dramatic film made in the process, Checkmated. The documentary film With Our King and Queen... full article at wikipedia